Below are a few of the titles shared this week. It is always fun to meet new authors and illustrators and find new titles for our library. Check out the slideshow to see what the week looked like for us!
World Read Aloud Day 2023 was AMAZING! The Brewster Library celebrated all week long, with each class connecting with at least 1 author/illustrator or classroom from around the United States. When connecting, we introduce ourselves and our school, are good audiences and if there is time, we ask questions about the other school. Sometimes we share favorite books! This year we had so many options for celebrating! The CT Association of School Librarians hosted 5 authors including CT's own Deborah Freedman and Janet Lawler. Novel Effect, Quivervision and Teacher Goals had 4 terrific selections including Peter Reynolds! Storyvoice Live and Scholastic partnered to provide read alouds all day long (even beginning Tuesday evening) and they included favorites such as Lucille Colandro who writes the There Was an Old Lady books and Jon Klassen and Mac Barnett sharing their latest Three Billy Goats Gruff among many other amazing authors and illustrators. And Flip celebrated with Nick Bruel and Bad Kitty! Fortunately many of these provided recordings for us. Below are a few of the titles shared this week. It is always fun to meet new authors and illustrators and find new titles for our library. Check out the slideshow to see what the week looked like for us!
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These are just a few of the terrific new books that have been added to the Brewster Library recently. The photos with 3 books are my Junior Library Guild orders.
Connecting my learners to places outside of our school is really important to me, so I try to connect them whenever I can. I saw a Valentine's Exchange opportunity in one of the Facebook groups I belong to and signed up. I also shared it with the teachers in my building so they could join in the fun if they chose to do so. In the end, there were over 80 sign ups and we were put into groups of 10. You could choose if you wanted to send digital or physical valentines. In addition, each class sent a digital Valentine to the entire group. It was so much fun to receive them and learn about schools from all over the world. Here is our digital Valentine. Students from most of my classes helped create the paper Valentines we sent. Our Valentine partners are from Kentucky, Colorado, Iowa, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, New York, and California. Most classes shared pictures of the students, their school, the surrounding area and other things of interest. Thanks to Connie Wonner, Kindergarten teacher from Michigan for organizing this project! I'm always looking for ways to connect with classes and I was excited when 3Dux sent an email sharing about a design challenge for Groundhog Day. Grade 1 classes learn about light and shadows throughout the year so I thought it would be a great opportunity for them to apply what they've been learning about. We were able to schedule classes all around the date of Groundhog Day. We decided to have them come 2 times, with a little pre-teaching in their classroom first. This worked out great! 3Dux organized this challenge very well and everything was easy to find. I loved all of the support resources for teachers too! Day 1 - the classes watched the videos about Groundhogs and if needed, light and shadows. Day 2 - classes came to the library to design and construct their winter scene dioramas in small groups. 3Dux had kits that you could purchase, but you could use your own materials too. Day 3 - classes came back to the library to put their Groundhog in their scene and shine their light from different angles. They observed what happened to the shadows. We didn't record data this year, but we'd like to try that next year. The learners had a blast creating and building together and the teachers and I loved collaborating. The Dragon Masters series is one of our favorites at Brewster School! Join me at this in-person event at Turning the Page bookstore in Monroe!
I Have a Question by Andrew Arnold (Roaring Brook Press, Jan. 31, 2023) is a must-have book for any school library. The main character has a question after the science lesson and is afraid to ask because they might look silly. The thoughts in their head go on and on as they think they will have to move out of town and possibly even to another planet! Of course in the end, this is not true, but Arnold does a perfect job of recreating the anxious thoughts that so many of us have when we want to ask a question.
I completely understood the character's feelings because this was exactly me when I was little (and maybe into my 20's too) before I learned that it was ok, and actually important, to be able to take risks like that. And yes, it's ok to walk into something late too. In my library classes, we are working on inquiry projects and today was the day for the learners to begin asking questions - so of course we started class with this read aloud! My Kindergarten and 1st grade learners were silent and completely engaged as we read today. Here are some of their thoughts:
If you are looking to add to a book to support inquiry or SEL in your library, you cannot go wrong with I Have a Question. Thank you to MacMillan Children's Publishing and Roaring Brook Press for providing a review copy of this book. |
AuthorMrs. Lussier is a Library Media Specialist at Brewster Elementary School in Durham, CT and at John Lyman Elementary School in Middlefield, CT. I am passionate about getting kids reading (ok, everyone!), wondering, using technology and having FUN! President of CT Association of School Librarians Blogroll
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